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The plan would replace the state’s existing formula for distributing its aid to 286 school districts. The measure incorporates a proposal to give districts block grants instead — based on their current aid — until lawmakers can write a new formula during the next two years.

Tennessee's education department will determine on a case-by-case basis the lifting of a district's requirement of teaching 180 instructional days because of a recent winter storm which prompted a statewide Level 2 state of emergency.

A New York public elementary school is abolishing traditional homework assignments, instead encouraging students to read books and spend time with their family — a move that is outraging parents who say they may pull their kids out of the school.

The Alamance-Burlington School Board is under fire after taxpayers learned members voted to pay the districts newly hired superintendent $330,000 a year — making the superintendent's salary the highest in North Carolina and in several other Southern states.

After more than a dozen students and staff were sickened this week at Lakewood Elementary by high carbon monoxide levels, school trustees and parents called for the installation of detectors in all Dallas public schools. Buying and installing the carbon monoxide detectors in all 223 schools could cost more than $7 million.

Nineteen of the 56 Michigan school districts in deficit are expected to be in the black by the end of June. The districts currently in deficit represent about 10 percent of the school's traditional public school districts.

Since updated government-subsidized lunchroom guidelines went into effect in 2012, the percentage of students choosing fruit in the cafeteria increased from 54 in 2012 to 66 percent in 2014 and those eating the healthier entrees went from 74 to 84 percent.

The Senate committee approved legislation to allow districts to convert existing public schools to charter schools and authorize the establishment of up to 10 start-up charter schools in the state each year for at least five years. It would also exempt charter schools from several education laws, including teacher certification.